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Joshua Braun

Joshua Braun is an Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Commentary

Holding Up the News

Joshua Braun
Meta has silenced news organizations’ social media accounts in response to Canada’s Online News Act, a law not yet in effect. Josh Braun describes the reasoning behind such legislation, its potential flaws, and how Meta, particularly Facebook, has turned the Canadian wildfire crisis into a regulatory pressure campaign.
Antitrust and Competition

How the Adtech Market Incentivizes Profit-Driven Disinformation

Joshua Braun
If we want to solve the disinformation crisis, we need to fix the perverse incentives created by the online advertising market through structural and...

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